>> all-out war. >> at 3:00 in the morning the enemy started massive shelling of our positions. >> ukraine officials accuse russia of it's.

>> white night needed? soccer revealed revelations of bribes going back decades. and venezuela's chaotic economy. >> if oil prices go up and down, i don't know how that affects us. what affects me is the situation the country is in. >> just days after an opec meeting. main suppliers of oil to the u.s. good evening i'm antonio mora. this is al jazeera america. we begin tonight with a major offensive in eastern ukraine and a ceasefire now much in doubt. pro-russian separatists launched an attack on wednesday in the ukrainian forces in the donetsk region. ukrainian forces say backed by

thousands of forces and heavy equipment. al jazeera am roxana saberi has more on this new outbreak of fighting. >> the new fierce fighting between ukrainian forces and pro-russian rebilities is rebels is the worst the country has seen in months, threatening to tip the country back into wart. once again the it embattled city of donetsk felt the full force. >> by the amount of naj here it's likely that this was a russian rocket hit. >> the government started in the government held town of marinke west of donetsk. >> forces are firing at us from

all positions. >> reporter: ukraine says, pro-russian separatists attacked marinke in the middle of the night, using ten russian tanks and fighters to strike government forces. >> translator: russia gave instructions to its russian terrorists to begin a military operation. it means it is one more challenge for the international community and i expect at the g 7 summit the international community will give a correct response to the russian aggression. >> those who are trying to aggravate the military situation whoever they are willingly or unwillingly pursue the goal of preventing progress on talks in all key areas. most importantly political and economic and humanitarian aspects of fulfilling the minsk agreements. >> reporter: with the increase in fighting the future of that

west-brokered agreement is unclear. >> translator: as long as there is fighting there is excuse not to deal with political reforms. >> killed more than 6400 people. >> translator: how can you believe in ceasefire? even if rebels don't shoot at us ukrainians shoot at us with their tanks. >> reporter: and caused untold amount of suffering. roxana saberi, al jazeera. >> andre, good to have you as always. >> good evening. >> let's start where that story ended, with the question that woman asked. how can you believe in a ceasefire? every article out there talks about the ceasefire being in effect,. >> there was no ceasefire from the very beginning ukrainians

know. within ten hours of the agreement there were shots fired at ukrainian soldiers. ukrainians went again to the table, offered a more favorable agreement and russia has not honored it. we have not gotten it so far. >> many of the injured were in donetsk, rebel held area. is there not some fault here on the side of the ukrainian government? >> donetsk is a state. only half of it is occupied. the town marenka that was attacked today -- >> not just in the city itself. >> those attacks could not be independently verified. there was reports of miners being trapped allegedly by missiles. we don't know what's happening. we know the osce is in certain areas and has seen open russian

soldiers walking around the area. >> and more than 100 blasts in the donetsk area. are we back to all out war? >> we've never stopped being at wash. >> i know that's what you're saying but is it a different level that we've been seeing in months? >> you could call it a major advance, they were bombing multiple areas trying to feel out where they could advance further. what we know is already in the fall those forces that occupy ukraine have said that they want to go all the way to the provinces, the border of that state. they're about halfway there and they're looking for more cities. >> that's the question. is the russian these pro-russian separatists, with the support of the russian gof are they tryinggovernment are they doing had a as the weather is getting better,. >> the office says she was

disturbed. we heard that when crimea was attacked. all we have heard is words from the state department blankets are coming, small supplies are coming, the aid that was legislated by the congress to be sent is hold up. where are the cosigners of the budapest memorandum? >> big meeting begins this weekend in germany. g-7, president obama is going to be there the priements of the prime minister of ukraine is calling for international community. what do you want? >> we want weapons and more trainers coming in. right now west has to get ready. we have to realize this is largest nation in the world attacking the largest nation in europe. this is not a small problem. this is one of the biggest problems out there right now. >> going back 20 years ukraine

agreed to nuclear disarmament in exchange for promises from the united kingdom and the united states. >> dictators presenting in this age -- >> dictators, vladimir putin? >> vladimir putin, as well as what china is doing in the southeast asia sea. yet the world is concentrating what's happening in the middle east and i.s.i.s. even though we all know that china and russia has been supplying weapons to that area has been prong up assad. these are symptoms and not attacking the cancer, the putin regime and chinese regime. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> coalition air strikes have killed over a,000 i.s.i.l.

deputy secretary of state anthony blinken did not provide a figure of the number of civilians. since august, the coalition has carried out over 4,000 air strikes on i.s.i.l. an example of the air strikes at work these kurdish peshmerga forces the peshmerga were positioned in the high ground north of the city. and when i.s.i.l. forces attacked kurdish commanders called an air support to stop them. a central command destroying two buildings and two heavy machine guns. fight the high death toll of i.s.i.l. fighters u.s. officials still believe it could take more than a generation to defeat the group. hashem ahelbarra reports.

>> i.s.i.l. is determined to expand their territory in the northern part of syria. this video is set to show life in the area the day after i.t. was taken over by i.s.i.l. from hasaka and villages in aleppo. the former u.s. general in charge of coordinating global efforts to defeat i.s.i.l. knows that taking over i.s.i.l. or daesh as it is known in the arab world is not easy. >> daesh is not an iraqi problem. it is not a syrian problem. daesh is a regional problem that is trending towards global implications. >> the international alliance was formed after i.s.i.l. fighters swept through city of mosul last year. the coalition launched air strikes against i.s.i.l. in iraq and syria but its ultimate goal

is to help iraqi security forces counter i.s.i.l drain i.s.i.l.'s financial force resources. undermine i.s.i.l.'s propaganda machine. in iraq, i.s.i.l. took advantage of the growing frustration of sunni muslims with the shia led government to recruit more fighters. >> we do have to ask ourselves why daesh of iraq they have more than 70% of their members iraqis, while syrian, less than 20% syrian. they were suffering during years and years from a very sectarian government of maliki. >> for the time being fighting is escalating in iraq and yrms syria two countries divided along sectarian lines, hashem

ahelbarra, al jazeera. >> clashes between i.s.i.l. and kurdish forces are causing thousands to flee into turkey. about 5,000 are waiting to cross the board into southern turkey but the turkish government is restricting the movement. at least 20 houthi fighters were killed in fighting in yemen, in the capital sanaa today forces loyal to ousted president head also joined inhadialso joined in the fighting. hundreds are still missing from the capsized cruise ship accident in china. relief workers are standing by. adrian brown was one of them he joins us now from china where it is already thursday morning.

adrian how much progress if any has been made on the rescue operation? >> reporter: well, antonio i can just update you on the death toll. it is now confirmed as 65. so in the past 24 hours the death toll has more than doubled. and i think antonio this is going to be a day that we see the body count rise significantly. yesterday i went on this cruise that was organized by the local government and the chinese ministry of foreign affairs so we could see firsthand the efforts that would be made to try oretrieve to try and find those who might still be alive. we have seen a bunch of men in orange vests on the eastern star star. attempts may be made to lift the vessel sometime later on today.

upturned hole of the vessel wide enough for a body to pass through. my understanding is they will be digging a total of three holes. one is to try to enter the vessel thrust these holes that they are drilling in the hull. but that operation has now come to a halt, antonio because of the weather. as you can see it is raining very hard in this part of china. the other problem is murky waters for the divers. it's very difficult for them to operate in these very strong currents. i mean if they held their hand up in front of their face they wouldn't see it. it's that bad. >> and many families are unhappy with the way the government has handled this search and recovery effort? >> yeah, antonio certainly in the city of shanghai yesterday we saw a protest that the police tried to break up. this protest involved relatives of many of the passengers. remember most of the passengers

were retirees, in their 60s 70s and 80s and they booked travel through an agent in shanghai. these people were protesting, saying we want more answers, why is it we don't have a confirmed death toll, why is it we don't know exactly how many people were on this vessel and also what is also stoking up their anger antonio is this report coming out suggesting that the vessel in fact failed a maritime safety check two years ago. that's something that i'm sure will be seized on by investigators, ones they begin their official inquiry. >> terrible tragedy adrian brown in china, thank you. a new report is blasting the nigerian military for war crimes. it says top commanders are responsible for deaths. ee obtained by amnesty

international. >> accused of the murders of more than 7,000 men and boys, presiding over beating mass torture and starvation . as the report was presented to reporters in abuja amnesty international said it interviewed more than 800 victims. along with 90 pieces of video evidence of crimes committed. sources were not named. amnesty rejects suggestions that many of the dead were boko haram fighters. >> the question of whether these people are in fact boko haram victims are an open one. many of the arrests were arbitrary. the military go to a community rounds up all of the young men and passes them in front of a hidden pointer someone the

military was paying, saying yes you are or are not boko haram. >> the amnesty report is completely false and biased, and investigators have inspected detention cells in northern nigeria. fought boko haram in difficult circumstances. >> it can be ruled out that some of them are boko haram and others are not boko haram. the military has always also explained that it is handicapped in a sense it is operating in a theater there is no judicial authorities, there is no police anymore so the military has to do with the job of the police and the military and so on for which it is not trained odo and doesn't have the facility to do. >> new president mbd.

muhammadu buhari. before he was elected he promised to investigate the allegations. the question now is will he and when? yvonne ndege, al jazeera booming. >> up flex, a stunning confession from the whistle blower who helped unlock the fifa corruption. and samantha power talks about the challenges facing the u.s. and the global community.

>> more damning revelations in the scandal that has rocked the world of international soccer. the american whistle blower who

helped uncover corruption at fifa admitted to taking bribes. chuck blazer meanwhile officials are now trying to find someone to replace outgoing president sepp blatter. lawrence lee has the latest from zurich. >> if this was the first day of a new life for fifa you wouldn't know it. at the zurich headquarters, sepp blatter was still at work. suggesting the kind of sport impurity critics say vanished years ago. but blatter's announcement he was to go followed by interpoll interpol announcement. not as clear a division between those countries who supported him and those who hated him. >> we know that the $45 million

spent by f fa taxpayers money was effectively wasted because of a corrupt and tainted bidding process. >> translator: it was a decision that shouldn't have been made given what was surrounding him. look i'm not in blatter's shoes but it was a choice of inconvenient facts. >> who should replace blatter? michellethe campaign group fifa with true global significance, perhaps the former head of united nations kofi annan? >> we at fifa made a proposal back in january when we launched in the european parliament in brussels but there was the implementation the creaks and creation and

implementation of a reform committee. that needs to be led by an imminent person, like mitt romney. >> it's worth mentioning that blatter hasn't actually gone yet, it's not clear how long he will be sticking around or whether he will try ofind a successor cut from the same cloth. there is no other obvious unifying figure in world soccer. the question in global corporate football is whether it's actually possible. lawrence lee, al jazeera in zurich. >> joining me from silver spring be maryland, is dave zyron author of brazil's dance with the devil. dave always good to have you with us. i think we're in the twilight zone. sepp blatter nows that announces he

is stepping down. he gets a ten minute standing ovation. >> he's going to be led out in iron bracelets that's how long in fifa's constitution it's going to take to elect a new leeder. that is going to be as rancorous as imaginable. each trying to get their share of the future power of fifa. >> some of the nicer ways you have described blatter no fan of his are you? the dark cloud over the sport and despot. do you think that's enough to save fifa? >> do i not. celebrate the moment that this dark cloud will not be there going forward. this is someone as an individual of sexism and homophone ya homophobia, speaks for itself. the problems in fifa are deeply deeply

systemic. not just one person, and one organization that's in charge of distributing the revenue but watchdogging in an utterly nontransparent organization under the same umbrella it is a recipe for these kinds of scandals to repeat themselves. >> what's needed for that to be avoided? does fifa need some sort of white knight to come in like mitt romney? do they need an outsider? >> mitt romney, i have no words about that. i audibly gasped, that mitt romney would be this figure that would somehow bring the communities of the world together. he couldn't even bring massachusetts together. >> but in. >> the mythology about salt lake

city and mitt romney. >> is an outsider like one of those men a good idea? >> well, i think it might be the only person who everyone could rally around and agree to without this being something like the 52-48 split we've become accustomed to in u.s. politics, the world is so divided right now but having a new figurehead is not what's changing fifa going forward. are it's going to be a real independent, real transparent organization that watchdogs the other half of it which does very necessary work of spreading the gospel of soccer and development on a global scale. >> one final question, newly released documents show that an american former fifa executive chus blazer whochuck why blazer who took bribes he has dissented bribes were paid for the upcoming world

cups in russia and qatar. the case that there weren't bribes, isn't that how business is done at fifa and has been done for decades ? >> yes absolutely. much more difficult to say any shocking precedent was set for 2018 and 2022, especially if the france world cup is implicated. because one of the arguments which i think is a very specious argument is there's some sort of split between europe soccer business which is pure and the rest of the world. i think that's hogwash. >> dave zyron, thank you. >> thank you. >> an editorial note, al jazeera is funded in part by the government of qatar. ahead of this week's meeting offingof opec, how that meeting will help or hurt cash strapped venezuela. venezuela.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm antonio mora. coming up in this half hour of international news, trying to control the outbreak of a deadly disease in south korea. and adding just a little more time to one day and the problems that could cause in this digital age. but first a look at the stories making headlines across the u.s. in our american minute. the pentagon says more laboratories than originally believed received live anthrax spores so far no illness has been lerchgd linked to those spores. a senior fbi official say groups are using dark spaces online,

encrypted spaces that the pentagon cannot monitor online. the case of contaminateir rice the cleveland teenager who was shot by police, will go to the grand jury. concluded today rice was playing with a pellet gun when he whereas shot last november. the investigation has been dogged by criticism that it was proceeding too slowly. in context samantha power has been u.s. ambassador to the u.n. since 2013. in that time she has faced some of the biggest crises, from the fight in syria to ukraine's civil war. what people need to do to face major threats and protect the world's most vulnerable people. >> before you served in the obama administration, you were a well-known journalist, you wrote books of wars in places like

bosnia and rwanda and iraq, never again can this happen, we have a responsibility to protects the people. but i put it to you in syria it is happening again 220,000 people dead and that's a conservative estimate because no one's even counting the dead. what do you say to that? >> well, every policy maker has to look at the tools they have and make a judgment about what can you do about the horrors we're seeing in iraq and syria. in syria where the assad regime has terrorized its people, gas attacks, barrel bombs horrors that are unprecedented at least the combination of those crimes. the judgment that president obama has to make is, okay, so what do we do in order to

mitigate the suffering what do we do to bring about the public utility transformation that a man like that is no longer ruling that country and wreaking havoc on the civilians we have given aid $400 million to the moderate opposition, a train and equip program that will also empower syrians to be able to defend their own communities over time and of course an investment in the political track which is ultimately where this thing is going to have to get settled. the one thing president obama has not done is decided to make war against syrian regime and that judgment is based on a belief that doing so would not necessarily bring the conflict to an end and could indeed make an already horrific situation worse. >> as the ambassador and also as an expert on a war and genocide, you talk about those crimes. are some of those crimes like what i.s.i.l. are doing to the

yazidis dropping barrel bombs are those acts -- >> i make the point that when systematic mass atrocities are being carried out the world has a responsibility to open up its tool box and figure out what can be done to try ostop those crimes. that's why attacks on gutta and elsewhere around damascus back in 2013, we made a decision to use humanitarian efforts he would be using serin as we speak if we had not done that. the tool in the tool box using air power and combining kurdish and other forces on the ground.

the responsibility is on the world community and the united states to do what we can. but it's no one size fits all but on both again it's incumbent on all the members of the international community to step up. >> one area where you are involved militarily is the fight against i.s.i.l. that is if going badly isn't it? they're expanding their territory. >> that is i think not accurate. since the conflict -- >> it's now size of the new be are netherlands. >> i.s.i.l. has suffered set backs in the last few weeks and

most recently ramadi, set back we shouldn't use that as a euphemism, because i.s.i.l. is moving into civilian neighborhoods and in many cases staging executions and carrying out horrific crimes. anyplace that i.s.i.l. takes territory, you can't minimize what that means for real communities and families and so forth. having said that, this is a complicated conflict. it is one that requires iraqi ground forces and ultimately as soon as forces, opposition forces on the ground to contest i.s.i.l. on the streets of iraq and again of syria. >> what is going to be in 18 months time, the legacy on u.n. issues and on foreign policy of the obama administration? >> well look, i mean a lot of this is the dogs that aren't barking. we had as president of the security council back in september, we called the first

ever emergency security council meeting on a public health emergency, ebola. there were a million people going to die so the cdc said and so many international health experts said by january or february of 2015. now we are looking at a couple of dozen cases each week, in guinea, sierra leone and liberia, and in liberia we haven't seyne a case in several weeks and we hope the epidemic has been eradicated there. the deployment and the international community rallying behind the united nations and around the u.s. effort. we could be looking at a much grimmer picture today if not for u.s. leadership and if not for the convening power of the united nations. i.s.i.l. over time you are going to see this monstrous ideology exposed for what it is. there is more and more of the stories of what it's like to

actually decide that you're going to go forth and try to become a foreign terrorist fighter have your passport ripped away, be put in sexual slavery if you're a woman if you're man who doesn't speak arabic, be put on the front line digging trenches. that doesn't continue to have luster for a long sometime. the financial underbelly to their enterprise and that is going to continue. you're seeing a lot of progress, it doesn't make the headlines. we urge al jazeera to try to find the bright spots as well because i think it is important to show that the international system it is not a panacea but it would be a lot worse if you didn't have those 130,000 peace keepers in harm's way, if you did not have medics chipping in on ebola if you didn't have the

effort to chip in on climate change. people are not make the strides that we wish we would see the issue that okay that problem sofdsolved but ultimately it's the citizens coming together devoting resources and we're going to make more headway. >> james bays speaking to samantha power. in egypt, two civilian were killed on the roadway. hours later an egyptian soldier was killed. they do not know who was behind either shooting. meanwhile thousands of argentines are taking place in protests for violence against women.

ni uno onos, not one less. recent cases include the april murder of a kindergarten teacher and a 14-year-old pregnant boy by her boyfriend. in el salvador, 635 homicides were committed just in the month of may that's the most in a single month since the civil war ended in 1992. up from 481 homicides in march and 421 in april. turf battles involving gang members mixed up in drug trafficking and extortion. dropped in 2012 and 2013 during a gang truce but rose again after that truce fell part. global slump in oil prices, lower prices have made buyers happy but in places like venezuela they have devastated

already struggling economies. al jazeera's vehenia lopez reports. >> reporter: forced to stand in line for hours to find if the most basic of food items the average venezuelan is unlikely to pay much attention to opec meeting in vienna. but much if not all of the future is hinged on the meeting. >> translator: if oil prices go up or down i don't know how that really affects us. what affects me is the situation the country is in. a country so rich in resources and we depend on oil for everything. i don't get it. you have to spend your life in line to find meat, coffee, even toilet paper? >> price drop to 100 to almost half venezuela has been among the hardest hit. but oil prices may not be solely

to blame for the failing economy. >> translator: the crisis in venezuela comes not only as a result of drop in oil prices but rather from failing osave during the times of bonanza. other countries like norway and saudi arabia invested while venezuela went on a never ending feast. >> a crucial player for years some even credit the late hugo chavez for being behind last decade's record-high prices but today it's lost all its leverage. despite maduro's attempt to regain oil prices, saudi arabia, iran around iraq are looking to boost production. venezuela has seen its production stagnate. even from an unprecedented windfall from regular high oil prices venezuela has been

unable to tap into its resources, yet president nicholas maduro remains confident that his country will withstand the crisis. >> translator: even if the price drops to zero, no one will stop venezuela. we have recovered the price little by little. >> experts predicting oil prices eventually settling at $60 a barrel venezuelans are nowhere near ending their be wait in line. vehenia lopez, al jazeera. caracas, venezuela. stopping mercer, and last year's ebola crisis. ebola crisis.

>> the united states and south korea have joined forces literally to deter aggression from north korea. first ever combined division today, the unit was combined after talks last year and officially activated today. more than 28,000 troops serve in

south korea. two new missiles, one is a ballistic missile that could strike any target in north korea. the second is designed to destroy enemy missiles in flight. meanwhile, south korea is battling an outbreak of middle east respiratory syndrome. hospitals across the country have set up temporary hospitals to treat them. around this time last year west africa was facing one of the most complex and serious outbreaks of ebola. first reported in december of 2013 but it wasn't until august of 2014 that the world health organization declared the outbreak of international concern. most of them from guinea, sierra leone and liberia countries

around the world donated $150 billion to solve the problem. doctors without borders samaritan's purse and save the children. more than 11,000 had died from the disease. beginning tonight miles o'brien will host a four part discussion about the disease. miles, good to speak to you. patients treated with ebola still are doing well, you spent some time there is that a fair representation of what you saw? >> it is but it's a bumpy ride to zero, antonio. as you know, liberia declared itself ebola-free not too long

ago, but the borders are very porous and everybody continues to hold their breath as we get down to very small numbers. what's troubling in the public health realm is there are cases that are not related to other cases that are cropping up and that is of some concern as time goes on but hopefully we're near the end. >> one of the ways this crops up is from animals. you followed from researchers the source of hemorrhagic fevers such as ebola is this a potential for topping stopping outbreaks? >> what is the animal host, the reservoir for ebola? the number 1 suspect are species of bats, but no one has ever found live ebola virus in a bat. they found antibodies of ebola

they found marberg virus which is a cousin of ebola. they can't find the animal source of ebola. so when you spend some people who study these donautic pathogens that come to us from animals when and how these leaps are played you go with it. >> what is happening on the vaccine front? >> it's interesting. the irony of all of this, the vaccines in human trials, there are currently three one in guinea one in liberia and one in sierra leone the three trials that are underway were rushed into human trials and trials yet the public cohort to study because the ebola epidemic waned. this is an outcome we all would

hope for but these vaccine trials will be somewhat useful but we won't know for certain how good the vaccines are until they are tested in an epidemic. the health care workers are receiving the vaccines now and we'll seize if the antibodies are cropping up and that will give us an idea whether they have defenses. >> another aspect you are reporting on, something easier said than done in these poor countries. >> well, you know a traditional health reporting structure of traditional health reporting is by its very nature a little bit slow. what if you could apply big data to all this? and there are entities right now where basically using conventional media social networking peens to sort of

comb throughnetworking means to comb through the data to see where these might be crochg be cropping up. it took off so quickly before there was real knowledge. it began in a very isolated way and took off exponentially and when that happens we all have to be worried. >> you spoke to the cdc and the cdc and the w.h.o. at one point last fall who said, without aggressive action, we heard samantha power speak about this, that the ebola outbreak would have affected almost 1.5 million people and those of us in the media dutifully reported that. yet the outbreak only affected 16-something-thousand. do you think there's concern over danger in those

overestimations, finding us in a boy who cried wolf situation? >> yes. and this is of great concern to public health officials. what do you do? do you hold back? but in this case, if you really listen to what they said at the time is, if we do nothing, this is what will happen. that gt got lost frankly amid a lot of frankly not here but irresponsible media reporting that we all could point to, that focused on that number and really scared people. now scaring people into a panic is not a good thing. scaring people into action, which is what we saw happen, turned out to be a good thing. it got people's attention. it galvanized a public health response and really if you think about it antonio, what happened here is there was no vaccine there was no therapeutic options really. there was no real way to address this thing except through education.

and the public health apparatus of the world was able to make people aware in sierra leone and liberia which for example ritual burial practices which involve cleaning a loved one are extremely dangerous. when people became aware of that that exponential growth curve went immediately down. people listened and responded and people who didn't have a lot of infrastructure to protect thenlz againstthemselves against this epidemic were extremely willing to listen and change their way of lives. >> the new series premiers later this week on pbs. thank you for being with us. we'll be right back. 'll be right back.

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for the fertility treatment are getting younger. but there are serious doubts how effective it is. neave barker reports. >> prolonged education careers and simply finding the right partner all have an inevitable path to play. as melanie approached 40, she decided to preserve her eggs, to preserve her fertility. >> i thought i didn't want to grow old without having a child or children. >> despite conceiving her daughter saffy snarlly melanie continues to keep some of her eggs frozen for future use. >> that time you think will last forever, until you're too old it's like an insurance in a way. >> egg-freezing has been around for decades mainly to help patients undergoing harmless cancer treatment but now private fertility clinics are promoting

this to young professional women. >> freezing your eggs will set you, to achieve a pregnancy later on. >> the procedure involves giving patients expensive hormones to stimulate egg production. the eggs are removed and stored in liquid nitrogen for up to ten years. when the woman wants to have a baby, the egg is carefully that thawed fertilized. a process that can cost more than $18,000. in the last year the number of inquiries into private fertility treatment, has advanced, in the last 12 months alone clinics like these have seen a 407% increase in people wanting to freeze their eggs. more in spain. between the ages of 25 and 34, a

number of women even younger is on the rise. but despite soaring interest the success rate remains unclear. one of the leading pioneers of fertility treatment has a stark message for women thinking of egg-freezing. >> don't do it. there is a lot of evidence that suggests it's very unreliable, unsuccessful and there may be a considerable pregnancy cost. we may be creating babies that are at risk of diseases that we didn't expect. >> some scientists say it's too early to know, but it could help women make difficult decisions between work and system life. neave barker, al jazeera london. >> now our nightlily segment on the news, united states and britain have failed to hold to

the 1997 agreement to hold to the integrity of ukraine if kiev didn't hold to its agreement the jordan times consolidates the assad government of syria under the headline unacceptable acts. the paper writes that every time it suffers a military defeat and loses more ground, the regime takes out its age are by dropping barrel bombs. winning the support of civilians rather than killing them. if you find out you just don't have time to get everything done in a day there's a little bit of good news to you. officials are preparing to add one leap-second to the paris clock. to compensate that the earth's rotation has slows over time. it's been used 25 times.

last was 2012, when some websites crashed trying to adjust to the tiny change. they say it will not happen this time. that's it for international news, "america tonight" is up next. i will see you again in an hour. . hour. . >> on "america tonight": on the trail. his mission to root out evil-doers on the internet. caught him the troll-hunter. >> what satisfaction do you get out of doing this? >> for once you do something that i hate the expression but maybe it makes a difference. >> "america tonight's" sheila macvicar with sweden's answer to internet trolls. and breaking bad. in the city of brotherly love bringing kids face to